It's nice to see Randy is back to his boring old self again. Randy thinks that people don't use anything that isn't a browser anymore, which is why we've all switched to netbooks and the powerful computer is pretty much obsolete now.

Er, wait.

As is usual when I have nothing to say about a comic, I decided to stop by the forums for this one. They don't have much to say about it--mostly they're talking about browsers. One person called it mediocre, one seemed to like it. And then one of the regular posters said this:

Mightn't this have been a better comic if it were released back when the "I'm a PC, I'm a Mac" commercials were actually airing?

Confidential to Randall Munroe: Your comics are so outdated that even your loyal fans are complaining about how outdated you are. Time to step things up a bit.

Anon you must be new to the internet if you don't realize he is referring to Craiglist pages like this http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/mis/. He still got it wrong, the layout is slightly different and all postings have an x4y tag, but at least he didn't fuck it up as badly as his *pathetic* attempt to draw 4chan in 591.

He's just throwing random shit out again and hoping something sticks. I guess the 7 pseudo-punchlines is less lazy than 1 pseudo-punchline like 934.

I've been using internet since there was only dial up, but have never ever visited Craigslist even though I often hear people talk about it. I thought Craigslist was only for selling stuff too, so this is an exciting revelation that I will certainly not take advantage of considering the type of people that it would tend to dredge up.

"....if it were released back when the "I'm a PC, I'm a Mac" commercials were actually airing?..."

Oh Rob,Ye of the Yankee-centric countenance(I am using the obsolete definition of this word, though the modern one might be apropos as well).I have it on moderate authority that the PC/Mac ads are the vanguard of Third World marketing agitprop - especially in Botswana and the country formerly known as Rhodesia.One must endeavour to become as cosmopolitan as one can in these volatile times.

Ann Apolis and U Kitten, up to their usual boyish antics in Tottenham at the weekend, have caused poor Theresa May to cut short her holiday. Interestingly, Boris, though called like Cincinnatus was called from the plough, refuses to leave his beach-house at Skegness.

The comic is more interesting if you imagine all the mes are the same person.I won't lie, I love a good Doctor Who reference, but this one was really flat. Why is Babe Ruth a timelord of all people? Elvis would have been cliched, but he would have made more sense.

What the hell is this?

Welcome. This is a website called XKCD SUCKS which is about the webcomic xkcd and why we think it sucks. My name is Carl and I used to write about it all the time, then I stopped because I went insane, and now other people write about it all the time. I forget their names. The posts still seem to be coming regularly, but many of the structural elements - like all the stuff in this lefthand pane - are a bit outdated. What can I say? Insane, etc.

I started this site because it had been clear to me for a while that xkcd is no longer a great webcomic (though it once was). Alas, many of its fans are too caught up in the faux-nerd culture that xkcd is a part of, and can't bring themselves to admit that the comic, at this point, is terrible. While I still like a new comic on occasion, I feel that more and more of them need the Iron Finger of Mockery knowingly pointed at them. This used to be called "XKCD: Overrated", but then it fell from just being overrated to being just horrible. Thus, xkcd sucks.

Here is a comic about me that Ann made. It is my favorite thing in the world.

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